thoughts by ron mcelfresh
How do you find books in a library? It may have changed, but when I was younger and a frequent visitor to the public library and various school and college libraries, it was the Dewey Decimal Classification system that ... Continue Reading
A few decades ago I worked for a technology company that had Pizza Hut as a customer. Maybe I should call this The Pizza Hut Philosophy but this is not a philosophy tied only to Pizza Hut the pizza maker. Plus, it’s ... Continue Reading
We have laws everywhere. In addition to the 10 Commandments from the Bible (beneficial but mostly ignored by humankind of the 21st century), we have national laws, state laws, city laws, and many laws we have no idea ... Continue Reading
What would you think of a daughter who spreads malicious lies about her father? A daughter who claims to be a Christian but slanders her father publicly? A daughter who litters Facebook with libelous notions that makes ... Continue Reading
I am about as apolitical as you can get, but I enjoy watching politics because it is more absurd theatre than anything else. Most countries that allow voting and display a modicum of democratic election principles ... Continue Reading
Good employees are hard to come by. Experience taught me a simple method to find and hire employees who turn out to be good workers and good people. Many interviews. If, after three or four or five interviews, the ... Continue Reading
Growing up in the Midwest often means little exposure to differences evident in the rest of the world. Missouri is the Show Me State for a reason. U.S. Congressman Willard Duncan Vandiver (from Missouri): I come ... Continue Reading
I have trouble remembering names. Like strings of numbers, names just don’t stick until they have been used a few times. Actually, that’s wrong. I have trouble remembering names of people I have known for years. Even ... Continue Reading